Pug the Painter (the Idea Box of a Connoisseur) is a monkey seated on a table that is decorated with the carved face of a judge on the side. He paints a canvas supported on an easel and holds paint brushes and palette in his right hand. From a speech bubble he says: " A marvellous effect by G-d." At the left an owl is perched on a stack of books and holds a sheet of paper in his claw with the words "Catalogue of some capital pictures lately consigned from abroad" and from his mouth a speech bubble: "I think Mr. Pug you may keep down your sky a little more."
Description:
Title etched above image., After a drawing by Paul Sandby now at the British Museum. See Registration number: 1985,0223.8. Etching also attributed to him in the British Museum catalogue., Text etched below image: To the despisers of all pretended connoiseurs & all imitators (but those of nature) this plate is most humbly dedicated., and See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 155.
Pug the Painter (the Idea Box of a Connoisseur) is a monkey seated on a table that is decorated with the carved face of a judge on the side. He paints a canvas supported on an easel and holds paint brushes and palette in his right hand. From a speech bubble he says: " A marvellous effect by G-d." At the left an owl is perched on a stack of books and holds a sheet of paper in his claw with the words "Catalogue of some capital pictures lately consigned from abroad" and from his mouth a speech bubble: "I think Mr. Pug you may keep down your sky a little more."
Description:
Title etched above image., After a drawing by Paul Sandby now at the British Museum. See Registration number: 1985,0223.8. Etching also attributed to him in the British Museum catalogue., Text etched below image: To the despisers of all pretended connoiseurs & all imitators (but those of nature) this plate is most humbly dedicated., See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), page 155., and On page 292 in volume 3. Sheet trimmed to: 28.6 x 21.2 cm.
Title etched below image., Probably by Philip Dawe. See Chaloner Smith., Subject identified in an unverified card catalog record as the Countess of Coventry., Reduced version of no. 21 in British mezzotinto portraits, v. 1, p. 158., and Temporary local subject terms: Female dress: lady's maid -- China: wash-bowls -- Soap.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Name):
Coventry, Maria Gunning Coventry, Countess of, 1733-1760
A young woman looks with a smile on the candle she is holding in front of her. The candle is covered with her apron thus giving a sofr, diffused light
Description:
Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Lighting: candlestick -- Candlelight pictures -- Female hats, 1770 : caps.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"A stout, ugly, and elderly woman holds in her left hand a barber's block, with a carved head in profile, on which is an elaborate pyramidal wig with ringlets. This she is covering with powder or flour from a dredger. Her hair is short and scanty; on her head is a very large black patch, two smaller ones are on her temple. She is dressed in undergarments, showing stays, and frilled petticoat over which is worn a pocket. Her dress, the bodice of which is almost cylindrical from its stiffening whalebone, is on a stool behind her. Her back is turned to the casement window (right) through which look two grinning old women, wearing frilled muslin caps. Over the window, and over the wall on its left, is a heavily festooned curtain. Sacarissa stands facing a low rectangular table (left), on which are a bottle and wine-glass, a candle (?) in a triangular shade, which is falling over, having apparently been knocked by the wig, patches, a comb, a paper, &c. Behind on the wall, in deep shadow, is a picture of a dome inscribed "The Pantheon"."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title engraved below image., Attributed to Philip Dawe in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and One line of quoted text beneath title: "She blooms in the winter of her days, like the Glastonbury thorn".
Opposite page 212. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on lecherous elderly men: a serving maid recoils as an elderly macaroni, sitting at a table with a glass, puts his arm round her waist and offers her a purse."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Four lines of verse in two columns beneath title: Macaroni endeavours the maid to seduce, With gold and such prate as with fops is in use. In vain is his courtship; the maiden stil coy, Rejects the vile letcher, and all his false joy., Folded to 32 x 25.8 cm., and Bound in opposite page 212 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles, at No. 13 in Cornhill
Subject (Name):
Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Older people, Courtship, Lust, Drinking vessels, and Purses
Title from item., Printmaker identified by J. Chaloner Smith., Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Lighting: candlelight -- Furniture: ladder back chair -- Candlelight pictures -- Thread papers -- Tickling.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller, No. 53 in Fleet Street, as the act directs
Old Gripus plunder'd by his young wife and Old Gripus plundered by his young wife
Description:
Title from item., Four lines of verse below title: How hard is the conflict, yet claims ridicule, when doting and av'rice possess an old fool! ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Money: bag of gold -- Boxes: strong-boxes -- Misers -- Female dress, 1773.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles, at No. 13 in Cornhill. Published according to the act